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• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06L—DRY-CLEANING, WASHING OR BLEACHING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS
  • D06L4/00—Bleaching fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods; Bleaching leather or furs
  • D06L4/60—Optical bleaching or brightening
  • D06L4/607—Optical bleaching or brightening in organic solvents

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• a process for the continuous, non-aqueous optical brightening of organic fibre material, especially fibre material made from natural or synthetic polyamide, which comprises impregnating said fibre material with the solution of at least one optical brightener salt consisting of an anionic radical of an anionic optical brightener and at least one organic nitrogen compound containing at least one nitrogen atom capable of salt formation, in a solvent or solvent mixture, the solvent or solvent mixture consisting of unsubstituted or halogenated hydrocarbon boiling between 50 and 150 C., and, optionally, liquid, water-soluble organic solvent boiling below 220 C., removing excess solvent from the material and finishing the brightening by a heat treatment of the impregnated fibre material at temperatures below the softening point of said fibre material.
• the present invention relates to a process for the continuous, non-aqueous optical brightening of organic fibre material, especially fibre material made from natural or synthetic polyamide, to the brightener solutions suitable for the purpose, as well as to the fibre material brightened by this process.
• fibre material made from incompletely acylated cellulose can be brightened by using, amongst others, optical brighteners containing sulphonic acid groups, and which are usually employed as sodium salt, by impregnating this material with the solution of an optical brightener in a water-soluble organic solvent, such as lower alkanols, optionally in admixture with a waterinsoluble organic solvent, preferably boiling below 250 C., and removing excess solvent from the material.
• optical brighteners containing sulphonic acid groups and which are usually employed as sodium salt
• the nitrogen atom, capable of salt formation, of the organic nitrogen compounds, usable according to the invention can be in the form of a primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary amino group.
• Examples of particularly suitable compounds are as follows:
• Substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic amines especially alkylamines, such as butylamine, hexylamine, octylamine, decylamine, dodecylamine, tetradecylamine, octadecylamine, diethylamine, dibutylamine, dioctylamine, didodecylamine, N-methyl-N-dodecylamine, N ethyl N- octadecylamine, triethylamine, tributylamine, N,N dimethyl-N-dodecylamine, N,N-dimethyl N octadecylamine, B hydroxyethylamine, 'y hydroxypropylamine, N fl-hydroxyethyl N dodecylamine, 'y methoxypropylamine, N- -methoxypropyl N do
• Substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic diand triamines such as 1,2-ethylenediamine, 1,3 propylenediamine, diethylenetriamine, 1,1 bis methyl-propylenediamine, 1,1-bis-dodecylpropylenediamine, 1,1 bis cyclohexyl-propylenediamine, l,1-bis-benzyl-propylenediamine, N,N-bis-phenyl-ethylenediamine, N,N,N',N'-tetrapropylpropylenediamine, N,N,N'N tetrabenzylpropylenediamine, N,N,N,N'-tetra-B-hydroxyethyl propylenediamine, l-dodecyl-ethylenediamine, l-octadecyl ethylenediamine and 1-octadecyl-diethylenetriamine.
• cycloalkylamines such as cyclohexylamine, N-methylcyclohexylamine, N octylcyclo'hexylamine, N B hydroxyethylcyclohexylamine, N methyl N 13 hydroxyethylcyclohexylamine, dicyclohexylamine, dihydroabietylamine and trimethylcyclohexylammonium hydroxide.
• Substituted or unsubstituted aralkylamines such as benzylamine, fi-phenylethylamine, N-fi-hydroxyethylbenzylamine, N-y-methoxypropylbenzylamine, N-fi-cyanoethylbenzylamine, N-methyl N '7 methoxypropylbenzylamine, N-octylbenzylamine, N-octadecylbenzylamine and dibenzylamine.
• aralkylamines such as benzylamine, fi-phenylethylamine, N-fi-hydroxyethylbenzylamine, N-y-methoxypropylbenzylamine, N-fi-cyanoethylbenzylamine, N-methyl N '7 methoxypropylbenzylamine, N-octylbenzylamine, N-octadecylbenzylamine and dibenz
• Substituted or unsubstituted aromatic amines especially mononuclear aromatic amines such an aniline, N- methylaniline, N,N dimethylaniline, N,N-dibutylaniline.
• Unsubstituted or substituted amidines, especially alkylamidines such as acetamidine, benzamidine, laurylamidine, stearylamidine, as well as N-methyllaurylamidine, N butyllaurylamidine, N phenyllaurylamidine, N- benzyllaurylamidine, N-methylstearylamidine, N benylstearylamidine, or N-cyclohexylstearylamidine.
• alkylamidines such as acetamidine, benzamidine, laurylamidine, stearylamidine, as well as N-methyllaurylamidine, N butyllaurylamidine, N phenyllaurylamidine, N- benzyllaurylamidine, N-methylstearylamidine, N benylstearylamidine, or N-cyclohexylstearylamidine.
• Substituted isothioureas preferably S-alkyl-isothioureas, such as S-benzyl-isothiourea, S-hexyl, S-octyl, S-undecyl, S-dodecyl and S-octadecyl-isothiourea.
• Guanidines especially alkylguanidines, such as phenylguanidine, benzylguanidine, dodecylguanidine and octadecylguanidine.
• Hydrazines such as phenylhydrazine or undecylhydrazine.
• Examples of five-membered N-containing heterocycles are: pyrroles such as methylpyrrole and benzylpyrrole; pyrrolines such as methylpyrroline or benzylpyrroline; also pyrrolidines such as methylpyrrolidine, butylpyrrolidine or dodecylpyrrolidine; pyrazoles; pyrazolines such as N-methylpyrazoline; pyrazolidines, especially unsubstituted or substituted 2-alkyl-imidazolines, such as 2- heptylimidazoline, Z-undecylimidazoline, Z-heptadecylimidazoline, 1-methyl-Z-undecylimidazoline, l-B-hydroxyethyl-2- undecylimidazoline, l-p-hydroxyethyl-2-heptadecylimi-dazoline and Z-aminoethyl-l-heptadecylimidazoline
• N-containing heterocycles examples include piperidine and its derivatives, especially N-alkylor N-aralkylpiperidine such as N-methylpiperidine, N-dodecylpiperidine and N-benzylpiperidine; piperazines such as N-octadecylpiperazine; morpholine and, in particular, its
• N-alkyl and N-aralkyl derivatives such as N-butylmorpholine, N-octadecylmorpholine or N-benzylmorpholine; quinuclidine and pyridine, N-methylpyridinium hydroxide and octadecycloxy-methylenepyridinium hydroxide; pyrimidines such as dihydroand especially tetrahydropyrimidines, preferably 2 alkyltetrahydropyrimidines, such as 2-heptyl-tetrahydropyrimidine, Z-undecyl-tetrahydropyrimidine, 2-heptadecyl tetrahydropyrimidine, lmethyl-2-undecyl-tetrahydropyrimidine or I-B-hydroxyethyl-2-heptadecyl-tetrahydropyrimidine; Z-amino-l-octadecyl-tetrahydropyrimidine;
• Preferred organic nitrogen compounds are alkylamines having preferably from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical such as dodecylamine and octadecylamine; alkylguanidines having preferably from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical such as dodecylguanidine or octadecylguanidine; alkylamidines having preferably from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical such as N-methylstearylamidine or N-benzyl-lanrylamidine; 2-alkylimidazolines and 2-alkyltetrahydropyrimidines having preferably from 11 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical such as Z-undecyl-imidazoline, 2-heptadecylimidazoline, 2-undecyltetrahydropyrimidine and 2-heptadecyltetrahydropyrimidine and their l-alkyl derivatives; cycloalky
• the anionic optical brighteners usable according to the invention contain, as defined, e.g. one or more carboxylic acid groups, but particularly one or more sulphonic acid groups, and they can belong to very diverse classes. Particularly brilliant brightening effects are obtained with compounds which are derived from the class of the stilbenes. Suitable derivatives from this class are preferably those of 4,4-bis-triazinylamino-stilbene sulphonic acids, stilbylnaphthotriazole sulphonic acids, or 4,4-bis-triazolylstilbene sulphonic acids, especially 4,4-v-triazolylstilbene sulphonic acids.
• a further group of preferred brighteners comprises derivatives of diaryland triarylpyrazolines containing carboxylic acid and, in particular, sulphonic acid groups, as well as derivatives of dibenzothiophenedioxides containing sulphonic acid groups.
• Suitable hydrocarbons boiling between 50 and 150 C.
• aromatic hydrocarbons such as toluene or xylene.
• halogenated, especially chlorinated hydrocarbons are used, e.g. chlorobenzene, but particularly, on account of their generally better regeneration property and noncombustibility, lower aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbons especially chlorinated hydrocarbons, e.g. chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, trior tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), trifluorotrichloroethane, dichloroethane, trichloroethane, tetrachloroethane or dibromoethylene. It is also possible to use mixtures of such solvents.
• a solvent mixture consisting of from 50 to 99, especially from 80 to 99% by weight of chlorinated lower aliphatic hydrocarbon boiling between 50 and 150 C., and from 50 to I, particularly from 20 to 1% by weight of a liquid, water-soluble, organic solvent boiling below 220 C.
• thermostable solvents which are soluble in water, not to the extent of only fractions of one percent but to the extent of several percent. Examples of these are: higher alkanols such as butanols or amyl alcohols, cycloaliphatic alcohols such as cyclohexanol, araliphatic alcohols such as benzyl alcohol, or aliphatic or cycloaliphatic ketones such as methylethyl ketone or cyclohexanone.
• solvents as defined, are preferred, however, which are miscible with water in any proportion.
• Examples of these are: monovalent lower aliphatic alcohols such as lower alkanols, e.g. methanol, ethanol, nor iso-propanol; alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers such as ethylene glycol monomethyl or monethyl ether; also furfuryl or tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, or divalent aliphatic alcohols such as ethylene glycol or 1,2-propylene glycol; also lower aliphatic ketones such as acetone, lower cyclic ethers such as dioxane; also N,N-dialkylamides of lower monocarboxylic acids such as dimcthylformamide or dimethylacetamide, amides of carbonic acid such as N,N, N,N'-tetramethylurea, cyclic amides such as N-methylpyrrolidone, as well as mixtures of such liquid, watersoluble, organic solvents.
• alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers such as ethylene
• composition of the solvent or solvent mixture is governed by the solubility of the anionic optical brightener or brightener mixture to be used.
• the composition should be such that a homogeneous and clear brightener solution is obtained.
• Preferred solvent mixtures consist of from to 99% by weight of trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene or trichloroethane and from 10 to 1% by weight of a lower alkanol such as methanol, or of an N,N-dialkylamide of lower monocarboxylic acids, such as dimethylacetamide or dimethylformamide.
• optical brightener salts from the anionic optical brightener and the organic nitrogen compound containing at least one nitrogen atom capable of salt formation, can be performed in situ, i.e. in the solvent or solvent mixture itself.
• the optical brightener salts are first produced, in a manner known per se, and then added to the solvent or solvent mixture.
• the optical brightener salts can be prepared by double reaction of the alkali metal or ammonium salts, particularly the sodium salts of the optical brightener, advantageously in the heat, with a salt of an organic nitrogen compound, usable according to the invention, with a strong acid, e.g.
• the anionic optical brighteners are preferably used in the form of their alkali metal or ammonium salts, particularly in the form of their sodium salts.
• the organic nitrogen compound also is advantageously used in the form of a salt with a strong acid. In this case, it is advantageous to remove insoluble constituents, if any, from the brightening liquor, e.g. by filtration, before the introduction of the fibre material to be brightened.
• anionic optical brighteners which are capable of forming anions having two or more negative charges, it is often not necessary that these charges be completely compensated by the organic nitrogen compound.
• the brightener liquor usable according to the invention, preferably contains, depending on the type of the optical brightener, from 0.01 to 10, especially from 0.1 to 3% by weight of optical brightener.
• Suitable organic fibre materials which can be brightened using the process according to the invention, are, amongst others, cellulose esters such as cellulose-2V2- and -triacetate, also high-molecular esters of aromatic polycarboxylic acids with polyfunctional alcohols, e.g.
• polyethylene glycol terephthalate polyurethane, polymeric and copolymeric acryloand methacrylonitrile, as well as polyolefins such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
• the process according to the invention is suitable, in particular, for the brightening of natural and regenerated cellulose fibres such as cotton or viscose, especially fibre material made from natural polyamide such as wool, or preferably made from synthetic polyamide such as Polyamide 6.6 and Polyamide 6.
• the stated fibre material can be brightened, according to the invention, in any chosen form, e.g. in the form of fiock, slubbing, yarn or-- preferablyfabr-ics.
• the impregnating of the fibre material is carried out, e.g. by coating or spraying, particularly, however, by padding.
• the fibre material is advantageously passed continuously through the brightener liquor at room temperature and afterwards squeezed out to obtain the desired content of impregnating solution of about from 30 to 150% by weight, relative to the dry weight of the material.
• the impregnated fibre material is then finished by a heat treatment, e.g. at temperatures between 70 and 220 C., optionally after preliminary drying, ad-
• the thus treated substrate exhibits a brilliant whiteeffect.
• CHzCHaOH is dissolved in a solvent mixture consisting of 930 g. of trichloroethylene and 70 g. of methanol.
• a knitted fabric made from Polyamide 6 is impregnated with this solution, as described in Example 1. The impregnated material is afterwards steamed for 5 minutes at 100 to 102.
• optical brightener salt is obtained, e.g. as follows:
• thermofixing the impregnated fabric at TABLE H 190 it is treated with saturated steam at 100 to 102 for Example No. Hydrocarbon or chlorinated hydrocarbon 5 minutes, then a brightening effect of equal quality is 13 Toluene. obtained.
• optical brightener salt is very easily soluble, e.g. in methanol, ethanol, benzyl alcohol and in dimethyl- EXAMPLE 34 1 g. of the optical brightener salt of the formula 6 OS N-N NIH-I
• the above optical brightener salt is obtained, e.g. as follows:
• EXAMPLE 36 An even, strong whlte-effect 1s obtalned on the abovementioned material.
• At least one organic nitrogen compound containing at least one nitrogen atom capable of salt formation selected from the group consisting of alkylamines having from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical, alkylguanidines having from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical, alkylamidines having from 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical, 2- alkylimidazolines and 2-alkyl-tetrahydropyrimidines having from 11 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical, cycloalkylamines, aralkylamines, and S-alkylisothioureas having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical.
• a liquid, water-soluble, organic solvent boiling below 220 C. selected from the group consisting of alkanols, cycloaliphatic alcohols, araliphatic alcohols, aliphatic and cycloaliphatic ketones, alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers, furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, divalent aliphatic alcohols, lower cyclic ethers, N,N- dialkylamides of lower monocarboxylic acids, amides of carbonic acid, cyclic amides and mixtures thereof,
• the solvent mixture defined under (II) consists of (a) from to 99% by weight of chlorinated, lower aliphatic hydrocarbon boiling between 50 and 150 C., the balance consisting of (,3) a liquid, water-soluble, organic solvent boiling below 220 C., and selected from the group consisting of alkanols, cycloaliphatic alcohols, araliphatic alcohols, aliphatic and cycloaliphatic ketones, alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers, furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, divalent aliphatic alcohols, lower cyclic ethers, N,N-dialkylamides of lower monocarboxylic acids, amides of carbonic acid, cyclic amides and mixtures thereof.
• water-soluble organic solvent defined under II(fl) is selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, n.propanol, isopropanol, butanol, pentanols, cyclohexanol, benzyl alcohol, acetone, methylethyl ketone, cyclohexanone, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether, furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol, ethylene glycol, 1,2-propylene glycol, dioxane, dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl urea, N-methylpyrrolidone, and mixtures of such solvents.

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